Financially strapped, Judge Middleton has plans for his daughter - betrothal to local doctor Richard Todd.

Much to her surprise, she clashes with her own father as well. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the children of the village - White, Black, and Native American - Elizabeth soon finds herself at odds with local slave owners. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. When Elizabeth Middleton, 29 years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate listeners from the start. Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place.and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.

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